He’s cute, but like 98% of his cuteness is how adorable he and his family are together. Which doesn’t really inspire pantsfeelings so much as “aw, I want to be his friend and hang out with his awesome kid” feelings.

It’s really exhausting to see how many comments here boil down to “as an able-bodied person, I think disabled people are just too sensitive.”

Thank you. I wish I had more stars to give.

Yup. The default human is a straight, cis, able-bodied white man. Everyone else (despite being, combined, a vastly larger percentage of the human beings on this planet) is a weird aberration from that norm.

Yeah, like, rationally I am entirely on board with the idea that it’s important to teach men about consent, to hammer it into their heads that no, seriously, you can’t fuck someone’s who’s passed out, no, seriously, the fact that she was willing to make out with you does not mean she has now consented in perpetuity to…

“It was just twenty minutes of action!” is pretty deeply incompatible with the goal of “encouraging [him] in being accountable for [his] actions.” Accountability means saying, “I fucked up, and I’ll take the consequences,” not “It wasn’t my fault and it wasn’t a big deal anyway and why should I have to suffer in any…

.........I have no words.

That’s nice. Why don’t you put that on a t-shirt or something: “If my child was raped, I would berate her, curse at her, and tell her she should consider herself lucky”? If you wear that enough, that should, I hope, guarantee that you never have a kid to treat so repulsively.

I don’t really want to pile on you, since a lot of people have already addressed why the phrasing here is upsetting. I just want to suggest that, in future, if this sort of situation comes up, there are ways to split the difference. If you are concerned about using the word “rape” because that isn’t the exact wording…

And that’s still completely irrelevant. It is entirely legal for 23-year-olds to drink to the point of passing out. It is not legal for people to rape them. This is not confusing.

I try to take comfort in the fact that no one starred that dumb post and quite a few people replied with some variation on “you’re a jackass.”

Nope. If my son were raped, the first and only question I would ask him is also “How can I best help and support you through this?” I don’t care if the victim (or the rapist) is male, female, androgynous, gay, straight, black, white, purple, anything - the responsibility for rape always belongs entirely to the rapist…

And the answer to that would be: “Why not? I’m an adult of legal drinking age, so unless I’m planning on driving afterward, I am fully allowed to consume as much alcohol as I feel like.” Since that’s the answer, the only possible reason to ask the question would be to suggest that, in fact, my daughter should not have…

No. If she were my daughter, the first question - the only question - I would ask her is “How can I best help and support you through this?” Because I have a functioning soul, and am not a victim-blaming piece of shit. Any parent who would respond to their child being raped by lecturing them on what they did wrong is…

I don’t know if Emily will ever read this, but in case she does:

I don’t think you know what “passive-aggressive” means. (Or “Zen,” for that matter.) Telling someone “what you did is not okay, and you should stop it” is not “passive-aggressive” by any definition of the word. On the other hand, snide comments like “I don’t deal with my rape by going around looking for pity, UNLIKE…

That’s exactly why the guidelines are being changed to get rid of those exceptions. There’s no rule that can completely stop the trade of illegal ivory, but making it illegal to import “raw” ivory, full stop, and illegal to trade in worked ivory that cannot be proven to be legitimately antique is going to make the US…

I feel like I need to be best friends with both of you given that the two of you keep having all these objectively correct opinions. (Frances Ruffelle is the best Eponine, Laurie Beechman is the best Narrator, Joanna Gleason as the Baker’s Wife is everything, the Jonas kid is a ridiculously inadequate Marius, Rushie…

I’m actually baffled by the idea of just looking at the stars without reading at least a few reviews - like, I get that a lot of people clearly do so, but it seems like such a bad idea! I have seen way too many utterly stupid 1-star reviews to assume that they mean anything until I see why the customer didn’t like the…

There is a pretty meaningful difference between letting people know “I felt this taco was sub-par” and letting people know “I paid this company $20,000 and then they completely botched the job I paid them for and never returned my calls asking them to come fix it.” Being actively ripped off by a company isn’t a…